Autonomy, Enactivism, and Mental Disorder - A Philosophical Account

This book connects insights from the enactivist approach in philosophy of mind and work on autonomous agency from both philosophy of action and feminist philosophy. It uses this account of autonomous agency to make sense of the impairments in agency that occur in cases of dissociative identity disorder, mood disorders, and psychopathy.

List of contents

1. Autonomous Agency: Conditions for an Adequate Account
2. An Enactivist Conception of Autonomous Agency
3. Enactivism Meets Frankfurt: Embracing, Resisting, and Reconfiguring Habits
4. Ambivalence and Agency in Dissociative Identity Disorder
5. "Getting Stuck" in Mood Disorders
6. One-Dimensional Selfhood in Psychopathy
7. Further Implications: Responsibility and Treatment

About the author

Michelle Maiese is Professor of Philosophy at Emmanuel College, USA. Her research addresses issues in philosophy of mind and philosophy of psychiatry. She has authored or co-authored four books: Embodied Minds in Action (2009), Embodiment, Emotion, and Cognition (2011), Embodied Selves and Divided Minds (2015), and The Mind–Body Politic (2019).

Summary

This book connects insights from the enactivist approach in philosophy of mind and work on autonomous agency from both philosophy of action and feminist philosophy. It uses this account of autonomous agency to make sense of the impairments in agency that occur in cases of dissociative identity disorder, mood disorders, and psychopathy.

Product details

• Authors: Michelle Maiese, Maiese Michelle
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.05.2024
• EAN: 9781032004235
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3200423-5
• No. of pages: 228
• Dimensions: 150 mm x 230 mm x 20 mm
• Series: Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy; Print on Demand
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; PHILOSOPHY / Mind & Body, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / General, Topics in philosophy, Humanist & Secular Alternatives To Religion, Humanist philosophy